Andrew Pinski wrote: > > I was lazy today and decided to use compare_tests. Guess what, it doesn't > > work on recent coreutils/sort (i.e. the one on FC5). > > > > >From the texinfo doc: > > > > On older systems, `sort' supports an obsolete origin-zero syntax > > `+POS1 [-POS2]' for specifying sort keys. This obsolete behavior can > > be enabled or disabled with the `_POSIX2_VERSION' environment variable > > (*note Standards conformance::), but portable scripts should avoid > > commands whose behavior depends on this variable. For example, use > > `sort ./+2' or `sort -k 3' rather than the ambiguous `sort +2'. > > This is the same problem as tail and head. Someone should tell Coreutils > that again they broking stuff that should work no matter what environment > variable is set. > > Also Redhat (and all other distros) should think about bycotting GNU > Coreutils until they fix this bug.
Coreutils is just implementing the decisions of the Austin Common Standards Revision Group. If someone posted here that e.g. g++ rejected code that was not valid C++0x the response would be exactly the same, "fix your code" not "g++ is buggy for not accepting this broken code and should be boycotted." Brian _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
